Huesca

Huesca

(wā`skä), town (1990 pop. 42,805), capital of Huesca prov., NE Spain, in Aragón, at the foot of the Pyrenees. It is a farm center. In this ancient town Sertorius founded a school in 77 B.C. After Peter I of Aragón liberated it (1096) from the Moors, Huesca was the residence of the kings of Aragón until 1118. A university, later discontinued, was founded there in 1354. The 13th-century Gothic cathedral, the early Romanesque Church of San Pedro, and the royal palace of the Aragonese monarchs are notable landmarks.

Stemming from a conference held in 2006 at the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University (the Index co- published this volume), the 8 essays of this volume present iconographic studies of painting and sculpture at several medieval Spanish monuments, including the cloister at Silos, the romanesque palaces of Estella and Huesca, the abbey of Las Helgas, and the cathedral of Toledo.

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